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...Harvard men’s basketball team. But, with 15 unanswered points—eight to close out regulation and force overtime, and the first seven of the extra period—the Crimson (7-18, 2-7 Ivy) came back from a second-half, 12-point deficit to defeat Princeton (5-18, 2-6 Ivy), 74-67, and snap its seven-game losing streak at Lavietes Pavilion on Friday night.“It’s been a while since we’ve been able to celebrate in the locker room after a game...
...With eight players returning and three world-class recruits, I expect we will be a championship-caliber team next year.” HARVARD 9, DARTMOUTH 0 The Crimson turned in its most dominating performance of the season in Sunday’s fifth-place game, defeating Dartmouth, 9-0, to record its second 9-0 whitewash in as many days. The match was no contest from its outset. Only one player, sophomore No. 3 Katherine O’Donnell, needed four sets to secure the win, while the other eight matches were all decided in straight sets...
...decided to look kindly upon it after years of pedestrian play against the Killer P’s. Coming off the heels of a remarkable comeback against Princeton, the Crimson (8-18, 3-7 Ivy) capped the weekend by handing Penn (10-16, 5-4 Ivy) a 89-79 defeat, marking the first time since 1987 that the Crimson has successfully swept the two Ivy teams at Lavietes.“We’re very pleased with a very good weekend for our program,” Harvard coach Tommy Amaker said. “I know its been...
...Harvard women’s hockey team has lost only one game this season, a defeat at the hands of No. 2 New Hampshire on Dec. 14. After that, the Crimson went into full swing, steamrolling all of its opponents. For over two months, no team could even come within one goal of vanquishing Harvard.Until Friday night, that is.The perfect ECAC regular season for the Crimson (25-1-0, 21-0-0 ECAC) was on the line on Friday in Hamilton, N.Y. against Colgate. With the clock ticking down in the third period and the contest deadlocked...
...long been hostile to the very idea of an autonomous - let alone independent - Kurdistan, which they fear would incite secessionist feelings among Turkey's own Kurdish minority. At the same time, Iraq's Kurdish leaders have been unwilling to move against the PKK, having tried and failed to defeat them during the 1990s. Instead, they have urged Turkey to seek a political solution to the conflict through peace talks and amnesty. And they're readying their own peshmerga militias to resist Turkey's incursion if they deem that their own people and territory are under attack...